SC Cleared Contracts in Manchester

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 8 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 145 254 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.46% 13.39% 7.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.98% 50.90% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 178 137
10th Percentile £335 £414 £370
25th Percentile £450 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £694 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +23.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £31.65 £22.87 £29.07
25th Percentile £33.00 £26.85 £38.79
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +27.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £63.00
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £42.50 £41.93
% change year-on-year -73.66% +1.37% -11.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 372 499 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.27% 26.30% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 368 348
10th Percentile £300 £338 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% +4.99% +5.26%
75th Percentile £663 £616 £630
90th Percentile £798 £700 £679
North West median daily rate £513 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -1.25% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 14
10th Percentile £24.14 - -
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.00 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +96.00% +60.10% -44.75%
75th Percentile £73.75 £37.50 £48.44
90th Percentile £94.50 £70.00 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -57.17% -5.61% -7.61%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport +5 7 £450 -29.41%
Bolton +2 3 £480 - 1
Salford 0 3 £425 -22.73% 2
SC Cleared
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.69%) nginx
3 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.69%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Revit
2 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.69%) Primavera
2 1 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.69%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.03%) AWS
2 18 (12.41%) Azure
3 12 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (8.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (7.59%) Amazon S3
5 9 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (4.14%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.14%) Route 53
8 5 (3.45%) Serverless
9 4 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.76%) IaaS
10 2 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.38%) GCP
10 2 (1.38%) Kong
10 2 (1.38%) PaaS
10 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.07%) VPN
2 23 (15.86%) Firewall
3 13 (8.97%) Wireless
4 11 (7.59%) Wireless Security
5 10 (6.90%) Ethernet
5 10 (6.90%) LAN
5 10 (6.90%) OSPF
5 10 (6.90%) WAN
6 6 (4.14%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.38%) DNS
7 2 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.69%) SAN
8 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (4.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.07%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.07%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Git
2 12 (8.28%) GitLab
3 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.83%) JUnit
5 6 (4.14%) webpack
6 3 (2.07%) LSMW
6 3 (2.07%) Mocha
7 2 (1.38%) JIRA
8 1 (0.69%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.69%) ERwin
8 1 (0.69%) Maven
8 1 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 32 (22.07%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.90%) Legal
4 8 (5.52%) Finance
5 5 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.07%) Electronics
7 3 (2.07%) Marketing
8 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Military
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (25.52%) Architect
2 32 (22.07%) Lead
3 23 (15.86%) Developer
4 20 (13.79%) Network Engineer
4 20 (13.79%) Technical Architect
5 19 (13.10%) Technical Leader
6 17 (11.72%) Java Developer
7 15 (10.34%) Lead Architect
8 11 (7.59%) Consultant
9 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.83%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.14%) Senior
13 5 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 4 (2.76%) Analyst
14 4 (2.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 3 (2.07%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.38%) Node.js
2 18 (12.41%) Spring
2 18 (12.41%) Spring Boot
3 15 (10.34%) React
4 14 (9.66%) Hibernate
4 14 (9.66%) JPA
4 14 (9.66%) REST
5 9 (6.21%) Redux
6 8 (5.52%) Spring Security
7 6 (4.14%) Express.js
8 3 (2.07%) BAPI
8 3 (2.07%) Jest
9 2 (1.38%) Middleware
9 2 (1.38%) PySpark
9 2 (1.38%) React Native
10 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.69%) cloud-init
10 1 (0.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.83%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.07%) NHS
6 3 (2.07%) PKI
7 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Life Science
7 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.38%) Tandem
8 1 (0.69%) Clustering
8 1 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (24.83%) Windows
2 25 (17.24%) Android
2 25 (17.24%) Apple iOS
2 25 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.28%) Linux
4 1 (0.69%) CentOS
4 1 (0.69%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.62%) CI/CD
2 44 (30.34%) Agile
3 37 (25.52%) DevOps
4 27 (18.62%) Security Architecture
5 24 (16.55%) Zero Trust
6 23 (15.86%) Mobile Device Management
6 23 (15.86%) Risk Management
7 22 (15.17%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 22 (15.17%) Threat Intelligence
8 20 (13.79%) Front End Development
9 16 (11.03%) Microservices
10 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
11 14 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (8.28%) Design Patterns
14 11 (7.59%) Roadmaps
15 10 (6.90%) High Availability
15 10 (6.90%) Scrum
15 10 (6.90%) Unit Testing
16 9 (6.21%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.48%) Java
2 9 (6.21%) Python
3 8 (5.52%) MATLAB
4 6 (4.14%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.45%) Bash
6 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.07%) SQL
7 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.69%) Bicep
8 1 (0.69%) Go
8 1 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 145 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.21%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.83%) CCNA
3 7 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.38%) CISM
5 2 (1.38%) CISSP
5 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.38%) RIBA
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Degree
6 1 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) QA
2 7 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.07%) NCSC
3 3 (2.07%) SLA
4 2 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Docker
2 11 (7.59%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.83%) Firmware
4 7 (4.83%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.59%) Terraform
3 6 (4.14%) Dell DRAC
4 5 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) Consul
5 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Graphite
5 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) linkerd
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.69%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.69%) Packer
5 1 (0.69%) Podman
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.69%) Puppet
5 1 (0.69%) SCCM
5 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (7.59%) VMware
2 9 (6.21%) Dell
2 9 (6.21%) SAP
3 8 (5.52%) Isilon
3 8 (5.52%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.83%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.45%) Apple
5 5 (3.45%) Google
6 2 (1.38%) Cisco
6 2 (1.38%) Databricks
6 2 (1.38%) HP
7 1 (0.69%) 3PAR
7 1 (0.69%) Aruba
7 1 (0.69%) Brocade
7 1 (0.69%) CA
7 1 (0.69%) Citrix
7 1 (0.69%) NetApp
7 1 (0.69%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.69%) Remedy
7 1 (0.69%) Sparx